National Affairs: Eastern Day

Not since 1928 has the nation followed the old slogan and gone as Maine
went. In four consecutive elections, Maine sturdily voted Republican
while the nation went Democratic. But even a stopped clock is right
some time. This year looked like the year for Maine to be right again.

This week, in the nation's first statewide election this year, Maine's
citizens elected Representative Margaret Chase Smith to the Senate over
the Democrats' Dr. Adrian H. Scolten, a Portland dermatologist and
political newcomer. Trim, handsome Mrs. Smith, who looks as most
clubwomen would like to look, becomes the first woman to be elected...